The backlit keyboard is comfortable enough to use all day, and as mentioned above, the system has
a pointing stick in addition to a touchpad with physical mouse buttons.
One of the new bits in the mobile version of Windows 10, not officially announced on January 21st, but found later in screenshots and videos, is a virtual
pointing stick in the on - screen keyboard that reminds of Lenovo's physical stick in the ThinkPad laptop series.
Unfortunately, the Slider doesn't include
a pointing stick in the middle of the keyboard, though you can attach an external mouse if you want this tablet to work like a regular laptop.
So
pointed it sticks in my throat.
Not exact matches
And that's the whole
point: You invest time
in crafting the perfect logo so it will
stick in people's minds.
«A major
sticking point is that we are not getting the type of support here [
in Australia and WA] as we're getting
in other countries.»
«Over time, we've been optimizing our clinical lab to bring up tests that are more commonly ordered, and
in some cases move resources off the proprietary tests that are less commonly ordered to get to a
point where the ordering patterns we are seeing can all be accommodated through our finger -
stick technology.»
«A major
sticking point is that we are not getting the type of support here [
in Australia and WA] as we're getting
in other countries,» he said.
With the country locked
in a national debate about what an appropriate living wage should be, pay —
in particular the minimum hourly rate — has become a
sticking point for many businesses and their workers.
Your neighbor is
in the exact same situation — same
point in life, same income — but because he works for a small employer that doesn't offer a 401 (k), he's
stuck contributing a paltry $ 6,500 to an IRA.
One
sticking point is a U.S. demand for 50 percent U.S. parts
in vehicles, and another is disagreement over how disputes would be resolved.
I was so cold at one
point that I felt like someone who was drowning — that moment where you're
in and out of consciousness and
stuck in lala land.
The Fed chair
stuck to her script
in remarks to Congress on Wednesday, but she did manage to
point out a few economic warning signs to keep
in mind.
A particular
sticking point was a requirement that all drivers be fingerprinted, a rule which applies to other professional drivers
in the city, but which Uber and Lyft described as burdensome.
There comes a
point in everyone's life where they just feel
stuck.
The two sides have both said the key
sticking point in negotiations involves changes to employee pension plans.
Make no mistake, the new iPhone is still lacking
in a few areas — its small screen continues to be a
sticking point, and why oh why does Apple still refuse to include Near Field Communications despite everyone else doing it?
Some top - level executives understand this, enforcing various strategies
in an attempt to ensure meetings remain a constructive use of employees» time and resources: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, reportedly maintains focus by
sticking to a strict, bullet -
pointed schedule, while Amazon's Jeff Bezos employs a «two - pizza rule,» which keeps meetings small enough so that two pizzas can feed the entire group.
The Amazon Fire TV
Stick was rated by six of the above sources (including us), for instance, so its total review score at this
point in the process was divided by six.
One of the biggest
sticking points in CETA was the EU demand that Newfoundland relax its rules requiring fish to be processed provincially.
Already,
sticking points in the plan have emerged, threatening the loss of votes for a party that holds only a narrow majority
in the Senate.
The key
sticking points remain with the owners wanting concessions on many issues, most notably an 18 - game regular season, a rookie salary cap, and a pay cut
in the players» share of the overall revenue.
According to work by the British government's Behavioural Insights Team, Canada is at a tipping
point; we're not yet
stuck in the mire, but we aren't safely clear of it, either.
Too many of the also - rans are already
stuck in the proof -
point pudding (moving sideways instead of forward) and finding that they can no longer sell the same old «just wait and see» story as easily to the guys that totally fell for it the last time.
The report
points out that, although 68 % of billionaires hold at least a four - year degree, a sheepskin «is not a prerequisite to then go on and amass a billion - dollar fortune,» since one
in three billionaires either never went to college at all or didn't
stick around to finish.
At this
point it seems they'd been
stuck in the Moscow airport for several hours, waiting for any news about how or when they'd be getting home.
Negotiators from the U.S., Canada and Mexico wrapped up the seventh round of Nafta talks this week
in Mexico still hoping for a breakthrough on the biggest
sticking points.
There's no
point in lamenting the past — and there is a real risk to staying
stuck there.
Each one represents a potential
sticking point in the dealmaking process.
Immigration was the main
sticking point in the negotiations.
That constraint made sense
in a physical world: a business that invested heavily
in printing presses and delivery trucks didn't really have a choice but to
stick the product and the business model together, but now that everything — text, video, audio files, you name it — are 1's and 0's, what is the
point in limiting one's thinking to a particular configuration of those 1's and 0's?»
Although the Council's stance on this element of the incoming data protection regulation won't become official until member states agree on the whole thing — an event that will trigger negotiations with the European Parliament — it does represent a major step forward, as the nature of the one - stop - shop mechanism has been the major
sticking point in reaching overall agreement.
Of course,
in a perfect world, people would have thoroughly washed their hands before
sticking them into the maw of a superpowered air jet — as Dyson has
pointed out
in response to previous similar findings.
The fate of the sunset clauses has been a major
sticking point in negotiations between the United States and Europe.
In truth, all the major hotel programs incorporate thresholds into their
points continua, but Toronto - based Fairmont is the only one that
sticks firmly to this one transparent system.
When you're struggling to
stick with a new habit it can be important to examine each link
in the chain and figure out which one is your
sticking point.
In any event, Compass
Point has the right resources for companies that are
stuck below the threshold of larger, traditional finance groups.
Thiel has
pointed out, reasonably enough, that America's political system is
stuck in a long period of gridlock and the current generation of young Americans faces dimmer financial prospects than their parents did.
According to the LA Times, one of the
sticking points in the discussions between Dauman and the Redstones is whether Viacom will decide to sell a stake
in its Paramount movie studio.
That had been a
sticking point in Texas, which along with California, Arizona and New Mexico had competed with Nevada for the plant.
Digital trade, financial services and intellectual property concerns also remain
sticking points for the U.S., Craft added, but noted two - way trade between the two nations remains a «bright spot» despite differences
in opinion.
So if we can expect 3 more quarter -
point hikes this year it would seem to make sense to
stick to short - term CDs yielding around 2 % now and then look for a longer - term one at around 3.5 % at EOY, especially if one — I am
in this camp — thinks that by EOY the odds of recession will have risen enough that further rate hikes
in 2019 will be looking doubtful.
According to Sandicor President and CEO Ray Ewing, some of the
sticking points in the negotiations included these items:
Inman spoke to the CEOs of two large MLSs — Lisle, Illinois - based Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) and San Diego - based Sandicor — to discover the terms that were and were not
sticking points in negotiations with the portal behemoth.
A further
sticking point in discussions is the length of time that the U.S. government wants to impose conditions on what AT&T can and can not do after a deal.
One of his views that always
stuck with me on that subject, at least as a starting
point for thinking about it, was that it was somewhat nonsensical to talk about what «equilibrium exchange rates» should be
in a world of fiat currencies and fractional reserve banking.
But there are a few
sticking points in iOS where Apple needs to know what its users are doing
in order to finesse its features, and that presents a problem for a company that puts privacy first.
The major
sticking points are explained
in this article.
More to the
point, the United States runs a $ 65 billion trade deficit
in goods with Germany, its widest
in Europe and third - largest overall — a key
sticking point for Trump
in his relationships with foreign leaders.
I've spoken to a lot of friends over the past 3 months, and one of the common
points they made was the difficulty
in sticking to plans as markets go backwards.